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Manchester Jjj ^ resb yterian Meeting . ~ The Cbrfsjti ^ as Quarterly Bf eeting of Presbyterian Ministers , in Manchester and its vicinity * was held at Dob * lane
chapel * near Manchester , where the R > cv . Mr . Jones regularly officiates . Mr . R . Smethurst introduced the service , and Mr . Grundy preached from John xyiii . 38 . to a crowded congregation . S / f r . Johns was chosen supporter to JSfar .
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MR . GEORGE CARTER .
1812 . Jan . 5 > -Ncver was a . more striking instance of the uncertainty of human life exhibited , than in the recent death of Mr . George Carter , of Bridport . On Sunday the 5 th instant , in the vestry belonging to the Unitarian chapel in that
place just before the morning service , in . apparently good health , he dropj down suddenly by the side of the minister , and wag taken up a senseless corpse . He expired in the 64 th year of hi * sjrge . How . true is thetcommon observation ,
t ^ t we know not what a day may bring forth , and what a solemn call is it upon Oil persons to be habitually prepared for < Jcj 4 fch and eternity ' . —lit very early life $£ r > Carter was subject to fits , which , it i $ supposed * impaired his facilities , but trjough deficient , in judgment , his
friemOry was ^ j-crrarkably retentive of passages of sacred scripture , and psalms and -hymns used in public worship . He teemed t& have had very serious impressions of God and religion made upon his mind in his youth , which , instead of feeing erased , were strengthened by time .
fcle ^ was always shocked when he heard profane language . He took so much delight in attendance on public worship , that , without doubt , the Lord ' s day was to him the happiest day in the week . Though unable to form accurate ideas of the rioints on which the various
denominations of Christian 6 differ , he thought tjiat all of them cught to cultivate mutual candour and love , and was always displeased whenever he beard any of them consign others over to eternal perdition , for differing from them in religjous sentiments , and not believing just 3 s . they < Jp / He has told the writer of his short sketch , who had daily injer-
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Smethurst at the next meeting , which is " to beheld at Cht > wbent , in the spring . Eight * cintii nisters , and above forty lay gentlemen , dined together at the White
Bear in Manchester . The business of the Lancash ; re and Cheshire Unitarian Book arnd Tract Society , to which there has been an accession of several n&& members , was transacted the following morning . - " / W , J . Secretary . f ^^^ M ^ U _ ^ ^ ^ ^^^^^^^^ feA ^_
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couTse with him for a considerable number of years , and who greatly feels the loss of him , that when questions have been proposed to him . respecting the Unitarian doctrine , he has replied by
quoting the following passages of script C ure ( , and O others of a similar import : Hear , Israel , the Lord thy God is one Lord ; ' * " Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God , and fcitti okilv shalt thou serve d *< God is a spirit , ^ nd they that worship him must woTsh / p htm . in spirit-and m truth ; " " Wh ^ n ye pray ,, say . Out Father , which an in heaven ;*' 4 < There is One God , the Father , and One mediator between God and men , the man Phrist Jesiw ^—He had not
sufficient acuteness In metaphysical distinctions , to perceive , how cohsisteiifly with these plain and express decj ^ ratioas , any other being , besides the Father of all can be a proper ; object of adoration and worship , or ljbw N J ir > e «« one medintpr between God and lne « r , the man CAnst J esW * . can himself ' , be - the very and eternal God . —Fop some years , Mr . Carter officiated as clerk in the chapel , with
much seriousness an £ propriety , and also daily employed himself in going round to poor families in the town to teach the childrerr to read , « p that lie wgs by no means a useless member of society and the Christian church . That etomir life is the gift of- Go $ by Jetuu Ohddt , and therefore gratuitous , and not the strict claim of human merit , w maintained by the in m ost zealous advocate for the necessity ofe good work * The best of men must rely on the divine mercy for final acceptance and salvation . If , however , at the great and impartial day of accounts , regard be had , and wire !
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130 Obituary . —Mr . George Carter .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 130, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/66/
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